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Ah, seems that you can use the Ubuntu .deb packages on Debian without problems! At least for the Debian stable (5.0.4) system that I'm working on, ec2-api-tools from Ubuntu Jaunty apparently works fine...

Edit: As pointed out in comments, you might want the package from latest Ubuntu version instead. (I can't say anything about compatibility with specific Debian versions though.)

As for ec2-ami-tools, I got that also installed quite smoothly, but only after fulfilling some missing dependencies: sudo apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby curl. (I had to dpkg -r ec2-ami-tools before that worked.)

Now, the obvious question of course is: why no official Debian packages? It turns out that Amazon's EC2 tools are not available for Debian because of some DFSG compliance reasons. :-(